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Heirs of Roman Persecution: Studies on a Christian and Para-Christian Discourse in Late Antiquity book cover

1st Edition

Heirs of Roman Persecution Studies on a Christian and Para-Christian Discourse in Late Antiquity

Edited By Éric Fournier, Wendy Mayer Copyright 2020
362 Pages
by Routledge

362 Pages
by Routledge

362 Pages
by Routledge
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The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300–700 CE). Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity changed the way that Christians and para- Christians perceived the hostile treatments they... Read more

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

  1. Éric Fournier The Christian Discourse of Persecution in Late Antiquity: An

    2. Introduction.

    Part I: The Later Roman Empire of the 4th and 5th Centuries

  2. Elizabeth Depalma Digeser Breaking the Apocalyptic Frame: Persecution and the Rise of

    3. Constantine.

  3. Nathaniel Morehouse Begrudging the Honor: Julian and Christian Martyrdom.

  4. Maijastina Kahlos A Misunderstood Emperor? Valens as a Persecuting

    5. Ruler in Late Antique Literature.

  5. Byron MacDougall Theologies under Persecution: Gregory of Nazianzus and

    6. the Syntagmation of Aetius.

  6. Adam Ployd For Their Own Good: Augustine and the Rhetoric of

    7. Beneficial Persecution.

  7. Mattias Brand In the Footsteps of the Apostles of Light: Persecution and

    8. the Manichaean Discourse of Suffering.

    Part II: Post-Roman Kingdoms of the Western Mediterranean (5th and 7th Centuries)

  8. Éric Fournier ‘To Collect Gold from Hidden Caves.’ Victor of Vita and the

    9. Vandal ‘Persecution’ of Heretical Barbarians in Late Antique North Africa.

  9. Samuel Cohen ‘You Have Made Common Cause with their Persecutors’:

    10. Gelasius, the Language of Persecution, and the Acacian Schism.

  10. Éric Fournier Everyone but the Kings: The Rhetoric of (Non-)Persecution in

    11. Gregory of Tours’ Histories.

  11. Molly Lester Persecutio, Seductio, and the Limits of Rhetorical Intolerance in

    12. Visigothic Iberia.

    Part III: Eastern Mediterranean in the 5th-7th Centuries

  12. Rebecca S. Falcasantos The City a Palimpsest. Rewriting Arian Violence in Fifth-

    13. Century Historiography.

  13. Jason Osequeda The Name of Ill-Omen: Basiliscus and the Church in

    14. Constantinople.

  14. Christine Shepardson Martyrs of Exile: John of Ephesus and Religious

    15. Persecution.

  15. Ryan Strickler Persecution and Apostasy: Christian Identity during the

    16. Crises of the Seventh Century.

    Concluding Reflections

  16. Wendy Mayer Heirs of Roman Persecution: Common Threads in the

Discursive Strategies across Late Antiquity.

Index

Biography

Éric Fournier is Professor of History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.



Wendy Mayer is Associate Dean for Research and Professor at University of Divinity, Australian Lutheran College.

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